Written by: Helen Fielding
Contributed by: Laura
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the premise: a group of 20-something girls decide it would be fun to mail their favorite books to each other in an attempt to be well-read...it's like being pen-pals, only passing on a letter that was written by somebody else...
2 comments:
So I had mixed fealings about this book. As I knew it was from the author of BJD I was very excited to read it. However it wasn't really what I had expected. I started a little slow and was hard to follow at times with the jumping back and forth from present to past. I also thought it would be like BJD and be a little more funny and witty than it was. However, by about the middle of the book I did feel that the plot picked up and I really did end up liking the book by the end.
Lisa
There was a lot to like about this book. I got the sense when reading it that Fielding was still getting her stride as a novelist. Some parts of the book seemed to go on too long, while others could have been longer (more hot doctor, please!)
At the same time, I really appreciated that she wrote a book where the rich, self-involved chick-lit world actually came to interact with real poor people. You hardly ever see the two in the same book, and I'm impressed with her for pulling it off.
Overall I really liked the book quite a bit!
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